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The article will provide a user with information on System 76 Starling Netbook version 2. Linux system builder System76 created a successor to their 1st generation Starling Netbook with improved hardware specifications running Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.04.

The 2nd generation Starling netbook has an HD WSVGA Super Clear Ultra-Bright LED backlit display, is powered by an 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N455 processor, and equipped with 2GB RAM, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100, VGA port, 3 x USB 2.0 ports, headphone and microphone jack, SD card reader, a built-in 0.3 MP webcam, Kensington lock, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, and 10/100 Mbit Ethernet.

The base hardware configuration comes with an obsidian black finish, a 250GB hard drive, and a 3 Cell Lithium Ion battery. A model with a coral red soft rubber finish, a larger hard drive up to 640GB or SSD options up to 160GB, as well as an extra 6 cell smart Li-ION battery are available at additional costs.

The Starling netbook ships with Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), one of the most advanced netbooks operating systems available today, offering a host of free applications for mobile computing needs.

The 2nd generation Starling Netbook was upgraded by system76 with a dual core Intel Atom N570 chip and the 11.04 64-bit version of the Ubuntu operating system in Q2 2011.

Specifications
Let’s have a look at the specifications.

Processor
CPU:
Intel Atom N455
Clock Rate:
1660MHz

RAM
RAM Technology:
DDR2
Installed Size:
2048MB

Storage
Hard Drive:
250GB

Display
Screen Size:
10.1″
Display Type:
Backlit LED
Max. Resolution:
1024×600

Appearance
Width:
10.5″
Depth:
7.3″
Height:
1″
Weight:
2.0lbs
Colours:
Obsidian Black
Coral Red

Networking
WLAN:
WiFi 802.11b/g/n
LAN:
10/100 Mbit Ethernet

Input Devices
Keyboard
Touchpad
Video Camera
Connectivity
USB
SD Card reader

By reading the article a user would have gained knowledge and understanding about System76 Starling Netbook version 2.

The article will educate a user and reader about YlmF Operating system. Let’s have a look at YlmF OS’s system enhancements.

System Enhancements:
1. CCSM - short for CompizConfig Settings Manager, is a configuration tool for Compiz Fusion.
2. ailurus - an application which makes Linux easier to use.
3. p7zip - the Unix port of 7-Zip, a file archiver that archives with very high compression ratios.
4. Ndisgtk a graphical frontend for ndiswrapper.
5. Samba - an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
6. Some Nautilus context menu items:
o (1)Open as Administrator
o (2)Open in Terminal
o (3)Make link o desktop
o (4)Refresh Desktop
7. Leafpad - a simple GTK+ based text editor.
8. gmount-iso - a tool that ease for Desktop users the CD Image files.

Multimedia:
1. SMPlayer - a complete front-end for MPlayer, able to play the most known video & audio formats without any codecs.
2. Audacious - audio player with support for many formats, and it has support for third-party plugins.
3. mid3iconv - converts ID3 tags from legacy encodings to Unicode and stores them using the ID3v2 format.
4. PiTiVi - a free software non-linear video editor.PiTiVi is designed to be a simple video editor to meet the needs of users in the GNOME desktop environment.
5. gThumb - an image viewer and browser for the GNOME desktop.
6. cheese – uses the webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others.

Internet:
1. FireFox enhancements:
o (1) Downthemall - Download in just one click all the links or images contained in a web page.
o (2) FlashAX plug-in - the universal rich client for delivering effective Adobe Flash experiences across desktops and devices.
o (3) Ease link - can auto fix and decode Thunder, QQ Xuanfeng, Flashget, Rayfile, Namipan and QQ Temporary Chatting links.
o ThunderBird - a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail and news client developed by the Mozilla Foundation.

2. Empathy - a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols.
3. aMule - a free peer-to-peer file sharing application that works with the EDonkey network and the Kad Network.
4. Iptux - an IP Messenger client for Linux.
5. gFtp - a free/open source multithreaded FTP client.
6. Xchat - a popular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client.
7. Emesene - a python/Gtk Instant Messenger for the Windows Live Messenger network.
8. Transmission - a fast, easy, and free bitTorrent client
9. vinagre - a VNC client for the GNOME desktop environment.

Office:
1. OpenOffice - the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and more.
2. chmsee - an HTML Help viewer for Unix/Linux.
3. Evince - a document viewer for multiple document formats.
4. Gnote - a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Linux.
5. Simple scan - a simple scanning application
6. Stardict - the best free dictionary program in linux.

Other:
1. Bluefish - a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners.
2. Geany - a lightweight cross-platform GTK+ text editor based on Scintilla and including basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) features.
3. Vim - a text editor

By reading the article, a user would have learnt about YlmF OS.

The article will educate a user about Ophcrack. It will also provide information and guidance on how to install it to USB and also how to create a bootable Ophcrack flashdrive. Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms.a href=’http://www.linuxsolutions.fr/wp-content/uploads/shafkatworkphoto.jpg’>

Features:
Let’s have a look at Ophcrack’s features.
• » Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, …
• » Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
• » Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista.
• » Brute-force module for simple passwords.
• » Audit mode and CSV export.
• » Real-time graphs to analyze the passwords.
• » LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
• » Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.
• » Free and open source software (GPL).

Install Ophcrack to USB – Windows Password Cracker
Now, let’s hav e a look at how to install Ophcrack to USB.
Password Crackeror Windows Login Password Recoverytool uses rainbow tables to retrieve Windows login passwords from password hashes. The tool is available in two versions (Vista Ophcrack and XP Ophcrack).
USB Ophcrack flash drive creation essentials:
• Windows Computer (Windows XP or Vista)
• 1GB or larger flash drive (fat32 formatted)
• ophcrack-xp-livecd-2.3.1.iso
• Universal USB Installer
• tables_vista_free.zip

How to Create a bootable Ophcrack flash drive:
In order to create a bootable Ophcrack flash drive, a user has to go through following steps:
1. Download the Ophcrack XP Live CD ISO
2. Insert theUSB Flash Drive
3. Download and run Universal USB Installer, select OphCrack XP, and follow the onscreen instructions
4. Create a folder named vista_free inside the tables folder on the USB Flash Drive
5. Download and unzip the tables_vista_free. zip to thetables/vista_free folder on theUSB Flash Drive
6. Reboot the PC and set the system to boot from the USB device
Please note that Ophcrack is launched automatically after the system has booted. A user should now be able to recover both Windows XP and Windows Vista login Passwords using this single USB tool.

After reading the article a user would have gained knowledge and understanding of Ophcrack.
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The article will provide a user with information on SliTaz GNU/Linux. SliTaz GNU/Linux is a mini distribution and live CD designed to run speedily on hardware with 256 MB of RAM. SliTaz uses BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe’s Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more. The SliTaz ISO image fits on a less than 30 MB media and takes just 80 MB of hard disk space.1.

In the world of small size distributions, SliTaz is one of the most remarkable. Not only does it have one of the smallest download images, but it can also run on modest hardware while offering graphical applications with familiar interfaces. SliTaz ships as an installable live CD and features an attractively configured OpenBox window environment. Expected elements are in place on a lower panel such as an application launcher, system tray, task manager, pager, and traditional menu system. SliTaz offers graphical applications for many tasks.

The SliTaz Package Manager is a graphical tool to install various software applications. It’s appearance is similar to Sayabon’s Sulfur and it offers many of the same functionalities found in other popular graphical software managers such as Synaptic. SliTaz repositories have lots of great software to outfit a user’s newly installed SliTaz. The hard drive installer is a bit more text-based in appearance and does run in a terminal window, however, it is a wizard and asks the same sort of questions as found in other installers. A user will want to pre-partition the hard drive before starting the installer though.

Some other applications featured in SliTaz include mtPaint, Viewnior, Transmission, AlsaPlayer, Osmo personal organizer, Zoho document viewer, Nano, Leafpad, and a few scripts to install media players, Abiword, and such. Perhaps of equal importance is the toolbox of system utilities included. A user will find tools for partitioning, viewing logs, managing files, configuring hardware and networking settings (including wireless), burning media, mounting devices, and lots more.

Features
• Boot scripts rewritten and faster (super-fast booting)
• All home-made boxes improved (tazctrlbox, tazhw, wifibox, burnbox, mountbox, netbox, serverbox, installer)
• Switch to Xorg from Xvesa
• Switch to Midori as the default web browser
• Better hardware support - wifi cards, webcams, 3G-modems, printers, scanners
• Better themes and desktop integration
• Faster virtualization with lguest
• SliTaz pro: OpenERP, LAMP, GLPI and more
• Easier to customize LiveCD and LiveUSB (tazlitobox and tazusbbox)
• Tazpkg supports new features including the conversion of deb/rpm/arch/slackware/ipk packages to Slitaz native format
• Packages are now automatically built by a build bot (Tazbb)
• More contributors and stronger community
• 900 packages added to the database and many updates

After reading the article, a user would have gained knowledge and understanding of SliTaz GNU/Linux.

The article will educate a user about Peppermint Linux Operating System. Peppermint OS One is a web-centric Ubuntu remaster that passes up common desktop applications like OpenOffice.org in favour of web-based alternatives such as Google Docs. Peppermint OS One integrates video sites like YouTube and Hulu right into the desktop experience.

LXDE and Prism
Peppermint OS One uses LXDE for its desktop environment. This means that it’s very fast and should work well even on machines with limited CPU and graphics horsepower. Mozilla’s Prism is used to integrate web applications into the desktop. When a user clicks on a web app in the applications menu, it will open in a desktop window. Prism lets web-based apps run even if a user is not using the browser.

A user can also click Prism on the Internet applications menu to create his/her own launchers for other web-based applications.

Cloud based applications
Peppermint OS One comes with a good selection of cloud based applications:

Editor by Pixlr
Facebook
Hulu
Last.FM
Pandora
Seesmic
The Cloud Player
YouTube
Google Calendar
Google Docs

Although the cloud is definitely the focus of Peppermint OS, there are installed applications included as well:
Firefox
Drop-Box
Exaile
Prism
X-Chat
Transmission

In addition to the cloud and desktop applications as mentioned, Peppermint OS also comes with the following:
Linux Kernel 2.6.32
Xorg 7.5
Openbox 3.4.10
PCManFM 0.9.5
LXSession 0.4.3
Linux Mint and Peppermint OS

Peppermint OS also makes use of some of Linux Mint’s tools such as mintInstall (software manager) and mintInput. If a user pulls up the Update Manager, both of these are at the top of the update list.

Facts:
Now, let’s have a look at the facts of Peppermint OS One
• Peppermint OS consists of two versions, One and Ice. Peppermint is a fork of Lubuntu, which is based on Ubuntu with a LXDE desktop environment.
• Peppermint OS Ice is “…by definition, a Site Specific Browser [SSB] that Peppermint creator Kendall Weaver wrote himself as a means to launch Web Applications and/or Cloud Applications [SaaS - Software As A Service, PaaS - Platform as a Service] from the new Peppermint Ice OS” while One is the ‘normal’ version that a user can install to ard drive.

By reading the article, a user would have gained knowledge and understanding for Peppermint OS .